I have a few websites on Hostgator and I would like to know how to automatically delete emails (from inbox and sent folders) that are, say, older than a month.
I've read a few threads on here related to this but they mention things like 'cron jobs' which I've never heard of.

Does anyone have any simple suggestions, please? Or a link to something I can follow?

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Are you using Webmail or IMAP to manage your emails, or do you download your emails with POP3 in an email client? There are no native features that will allow you to automatically delete emails from your Inbox and Sent folders, so you would have to develop a script or setup a cron job to remove the emails directly from your /home/$username/mail/$domain.com/user/cur directory (and .Sent). Cron jobs are documented at: